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You are misinterpeting that message in your BIOS. It means that in IDE mode, SATA drives can not be hot-swapped, where is this feature is supported under AHCI. That means it affects only non-system, SATA drives. It has absolutely no effect on USB devices.

If you are having trouble getting USB devices to be detected by your computer, that is a separate issue.

Win7 computer in IDE mode and cannot access USB plug and play devices

plug and play bluetooth dongle not detecting devices and not able to fi just bought a plug and play blutooth dongle .
the first time i put it in it installed certain drivers but 2 failed and it said device unplugged.
so i uninstalled the drivers and plugged in the dongle again.
now it installed evrythin fine.
but when i try to add a device it dosent discover...

Hardware & Devices

Plug and Play is enabled, but devices do not recognize that it is on.Okay so basically some programs and devices started acting a bit goofy about a month ago, it was small stuff and I didn't really care. Now my Wacom Bamboo Create Tablet stops working, as well as my printer/scanner (Canon MP490). This was too much so I tried finding the problem, so I head to my...

Hardware & Devices

Turn win7 into a plug & play system ?Hi,
cloning a hd is one thing.
But my issue is as follows:
If my computer crashes & i want to use a new computer, & have windows 7 installed on a functional hd, & undock the hard drive & put it in the new laptop, i get a windows fatal error, because of principal drivers not...

Installation & Setup

Remote Desktop Access with Plug-and-play DriversHello,
I am currently running a tablet netbook with w7 pro x32. It's not powerful enough to run photoshop very well, and my license wouldn't let me put it on there anyway. However, this netbook is a tablet. I'd like to use it for graphics, as it has a Wacom digitizer.
What I'm interested in...

Network & Sharing

Plug and Play disable my USB devicesthis problem is getting annoying..
i have to keep system restoring to a point where my keyboard and mouse which are both USB work in the beginning when windows 7 loads up... that is until Plug and Play tries to install the devices.
after window is done installing and say it have been...